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Bother.
I got three bottles of malt for Xmas, so felt duty bound to drink half of one tonight.

That was probably a mistake on top of everything else.

Fortunately I've now watched sufficient Kdrama to have an approximate idea of how to make hangover soup for breakfast.

Wish me well.

An interesting story.

A homeless, autistic, man turned up on the Christmas doorstep in 1975, and lived with a family for the next 45 years. They knew him a little from school years etc, but he had been institutionalised with little support and released with little support.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxwllqz1l0o

Just one present today, from my folks (we're doing presents tomorrow when my sister, brother in law, nephew and his girlfriend come over) and they didn't need to ask me what I wanted

I got a big enough Airbnb voucher to cover about about half the nights of my Spring holiday. Well done Mum and Dad!

Thank you for the crossword, @StJohn

I calculate I cooked double what I needed, ate around twice what I should have done, and drank three times that.

So that's me done for today.

Ukranian Christmas present to Russia. Orenburg gas plant is on fire.

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2004172940745785687

Has Ukraine won yet as you were predicting as early as 2023?

Yep they’re winning.

50,000 dead Russians to not take Kupyansk, and 100,000 dead Russians to not take Pokrovsk.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

I'm sure everyone seen the official White House Christmas Card:

Merry Christmas to all!

Every year I get suckered in to trying sherry.
A truly awful drink.

And delighted that my nephew made it home from hospital in time for Christmas

It's nice to know St John is still doing these.

Merry Christmas.

Got an industrial size box of licorice all-sorts.
Bloody despise licorice.